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In reply to the discussion: A little PSA about the term "Neoliberalism". [View all]newthinking
(3,982 posts)11. Know your NeoCons: The Kagans - A Family Business of Perpetual War
A Family Business of Perpetual War
March 20, 2015
Exclusive: Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and from op-ed pages he demands Congress buy more weapons. Theres a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.
This extraordinary husband-and-wife duo makes quite a one-two punch for the Military-Industrial Complex, an inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington think tanks.
Prominent neocon intellectual Robert Kagan. (Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl)
Not only does the broader community of neoconservatives stand to benefit but so do other members of the Kagan clan, including Roberts brother Frederick at the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly, who runs her own shop called the Institute for the Study of War.
Continued:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/
March 20, 2015
Exclusive: Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and from op-ed pages he demands Congress buy more weapons. Theres a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.
This extraordinary husband-and-wife duo makes quite a one-two punch for the Military-Industrial Complex, an inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington think tanks.
Prominent neocon intellectual Robert Kagan. (Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl)
Not only does the broader community of neoconservatives stand to benefit but so do other members of the Kagan clan, including Roberts brother Frederick at the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly, who runs her own shop called the Institute for the Study of War.
Continued:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/
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Neo liberalism in the rest of the world is what neocons were to america. PNAC has closed up shop but
applegrove
Jun 2016
#1
Then what George W. Bush practiced when he went into Iraq and thought he would free up capital and
applegrove
Jun 2016
#4
HRC does not promote "Trickle Down Economics" nor "Thousand Points of Light"
emulatorloo
Jun 2016
#6
I don't much worry about what they are called. I will know them by their works. nt
silvershadow
Jun 2016
#5
Um, no. I just came off a two week time out, after which the whole dynamic of DU changed.
silvershadow
Jul 2016
#25
Yes, thank you, I am certainly fully aware of that. Civility does not include stifling
silvershadow
Jul 2016
#28